On Sunday night we went to the Groovin' The Moo concert in Townsville. It was an all day concert that featured about 15 bands and traveled to 3 other towns in Australia. Basically, Townsville was flooded with twenty-something year olds for this concert.
At around noon, we headed to our friend's house to meet up with some people and have a feed and drinks before walking over to the concert ground. The line to get into the concert was enormous. It took us about 40 minutes to get through the line and into the concert. The weather was perfect-- warm with blue skies and some clouds to give us just enough respite from the sun. Three stages were set up for the event-- one was under a huge tent where a DJ played mostly techno music and the crowd jumped up and down in a mosh and threw water bottles. The other two stages were for the main acts and were right next to each other about 100 meters away from the tent. They alternated the stages so that when one band was playing on the first stage, the crew was setting up the second stage for the next band. This made the concert run extremely smoothly and eliminated any excessive down time.
Empire of the Sun put on quite an interesting show with extremely odd costumes and choreography. At many points during his show, I wondered if he was serious…like, is this real?? It was just bizarre, but the music was good and overall it was very entertaining. Vampire Weekend played a phenomenal set. I think they should have headlined the concert, but I guess everyone there was pretty obsessed with the Aussie band, Silverchair. The lead singer of Silverchair had a good voice, but it was just not my kind of music. Overall it was a great concert with fun people and good music.
Another fun experience in Australia…check.
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